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New York – Naomi Osaka became the first Japanese to win a Grand Slam singles title on Saturday as her idol Serena Williams angrily imploded, calling the chair umpire in the US Open final “a thief”.
READ: WTA to look into Serena Williams, umpire dispute
Osaka, 20, triumphed 6-2, 6-4 in the match marred by Williams’s second set outburst, the American enraged by umpire Carlos Ramos’s warning for receiving coaching from her box.
When a second code violation for racquet abuse was handed out to her – along with a point penalty – Williams exploded.
She tearfully accused him of being a “thief” and angrily demanded an apology from the official.
“You’re attacking my character,” she said. “You will never, ever be on another court of mine. You are the liar,” she fumed and Ramos handed her a game penalty for a third violation — verbal abuse — that put Osaka one game from victory at 5-3 in the second set.
Williams won the next game, and continued her tearful remonstrations with a supervisor on the changeover.
But Osaka — who displayed not only a stellar game but remarkable poise throughout — held serve to seal a historic win for her country.
“It doesn’t really feel that real right now. Maybe in a few days I’ll realize what I’ve done,” said Osaka, adding that the noise was so great in Arthur Ashe Stadium and her focus so single-minded that she wasn’t fully aware of the escalating controversy.
“When I turned around it was 5-3 so I was a little bit confused then,” she said of the game suddenly awarded to her.
“I felt like I had to focus. She’s such a great champion so I know she can come back from any point.”
READ: Mother of all meltdowns: Who’s saying what after US Open final
Williams, seeking a first Grand Slam title since the birth of her daughter Olympia on September 1 2017, was denied a 24th Grand Slam title that would have matched Margaret Court’s all-time record.
As the pro-Williams crowed booed the trophy ceremony announcer, Osaka was tearing up herself, but Williams urged the spectators to show the young champion respect.
“She played well,” Williams said, pausing to compose herself.
“This is her first Grand Slam. Let’s make this the best moment we can.”
When it was Osaka’s turn she seemed at a loss, apologizing to the crowd.
“It was always my dream to play Serena in the US Open finals,” she added, turning to Williams herself.
“I’m really grateful I was able to play with you, thank you.”
Williams’s outburst overshadowed an outstanding performance from Osaka, who made her second career title a Grand Slam after winning her first at Indian Wells in March.
A match with history at stake for both players got off to a tense start and it was Williams who blinked first, double-faulting on break point to give Osaka a 2-1 lead.
After a confident hold punctuated by a 106 mph ace Osaka broke again to lead 4-1, silencing the crowd.
READ: Serena Williams’ list of US Open implosions
They came to life again as Williams gained her first break chance, which Osaka saved with a 117 mph service winner. Williams squandered one more chance before Osaka sealed the hold with another big serve.
It was in the second game of the second set that Williams was warned for receiving coaching, a charge she vigorously denied.
“I don’t cheat to win,” she said. “I’d rather lose.”
Coach Patrick Mouratoglou admitted in an interview with ESPN that he was trying to advise her with a hand gesture, although Williams was apparently oblivious.
“The star of the show has been once again the chair umpire,” he tweeted.
“Should they be allowed have an influence on the result of a match? When do we decide that this should never happen again?”
Williams was up 2-1 on the changeover when she spoke again with Ramos appearing to smooth things over, and she finally found a way to break Osaka for a 3-1 lead.
The tranquility didn’t last long. When Osaka broke back with the aid of two double faults and a backhand into the net from Williams, the American smashed her racquet to the court. A second code violation came with a point penalty to start the next game that sent her into orbit.
“I didn’t get coaching. I haven’t cheated in my life. I stand for what’s right,” insisted Williams as they headed into the sixth game — in which Osaka held at love.
After Osaka broke for a 4-3 lead Williams continued her verbal assault on Ramos, who docked her a game for a third violation that put Osaka up 5-3.
The scene recalled Williams’s ugly rant at a line judge in her US Open semi-final loss to Kim Clijsters in 2009 and her verbal attack on chair umpire Eva Asderaki in her 2011 final loss to Samantha Stosur.
Williams said she didn’t know if she would have managed to turn things around if the dispute with Ramos had not occurred.
“It’s hard to say because I always fight till the end and I always try to come back, no matter what.”
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Special Investigating Unit (SIU) head Advocate Andy Mothibi says the majority of the cases his unit has referred to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) for attention between 2013 and April have been left to gather dust.
Annual reports issued by the investigative body since 2015 reveal that the bulk of the matters referred for prosecution are for offences committed in terms of the Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act, the Prevention of Organised Crime Act, the Public Finance Management Act and the Municipal Finance Management Act.
Most involve corruption by officials and businesspeople to whom contracts were illegally awarded, and which had a direct impact on service delivery.
“No feedback has been received since 2014/15, even at that time. There is still no feedback,” Mothibi said on Thursday.
“These referrals keep accumulating. That’s why, if you look at the numbers, you’ll end up seeing it’s 686 cases because nothing is being done.”
After receiving scant feedback from the NPA, Mothibi signed a memorandum of understanding with former National Director of Public Prosecutions Shaun Abrahams. The agreement seeks to formalise the feedback process with monthly meetings between the head of the NPA’s Specialised Commercial Crime Unit and SIU provincial heads, the establishment of a database to track cases and quarterly reports sent to the SIU head.
Mothibi said little had come of this.
“We entered into that in August last year. Still nothing has been done that we are happy with. There has just been to-ing and fro-ing and no tangible action. That’s our concern,” he said.
“As against our referrals for Public Finance Management Act violations, we should have seen more. If these referrals had been acted on, we could be seeing a lot,” Mothibi said.
“I don’t know where the hold-up is, and that’s really what we want to understand. We really want to know what the gaps are. How can we assist to unlock them so that we see traction? It’s problematic.”
But the NPA hit back, saying it had to refer SIU matters to the Hawks because only it and the SA Police Service were mandated by the Constitution to conduct criminal investigations.
NPA spokesperson Luvuyo Mfaku said: “Prosecutions are not instituted on the basis of the evidence collated by the SIU, as the statements and/or forensic reports contained in the referrals are not for the purpose of the institution of criminal proceedings but for civil recovery. Prosecution can only ensue on the basis of a criminal docket registered and investigated by the police.
“The NPA is currently conducting an audit of all the reports referred by SIU to the NPA. On completion of the audit, we will engage the SIU in line with the prescripts of the memorandum of understanding before we engage the media. However, I can assure you that all the matters referred by SIU to the NPA are receiving the necessary attention.”
Mothibi, however, said his staff – among them highly trained advocates, forensic attorneys and accountants – knew their work and could spot when a crime had been committed.
“What we expect is that they go through the dossier and satisfy themselves that the evidentiary material is sufficient to prosecute. The added expectation is that, if they don’t prosecute, let us understand why,” he said.
“If there is a need for further evidence, send it back and we will get it for you so that we enable you to prosecute.”
However, the NPA’s alleged inaction is not Mothibi’s only concern. He has also been met with reluctance by accounting authorities and officers – including directors-general and the boards of state-owned enterprises – to institute disciplinary action against officials whose cases were sent to them.
“We have got a similar concern there. We are not only singling out the NPA here. It is our concern. We can’t see the impact of the SIU’s work if these matters are not actioned. That’s our serious problem,” he said.
“We are currently working on measures to follow up with the accounting authorities and accounting officers, and those measures are still in discussion between ourselves and the presidency.”
Yet another requirement the SIU finds it difficult to fulfil is civil litigation against alleged wrongdoers, and to cancel irregularly awarded contracts and recover the money. One example is the SIU’s R155m lawsuit against Minenhle Makhanya, the architect employed by former president Jacob Zuma to oversee the renovations and security upgrades project at his home in Nkandla. The case has now been enrolled, “but, unfortunately, only for June next year”.
“In the civil section, we are worried as well because we are in the queue with all the other litigants. We are in the process of engaging the department of justice and are satisfied that we will make an announcement this year about the establishment of a special tribunal,” Mothibi said.
“We are glad that there is the political will now to make sure this is re-established.”
Mothibi said the SIU’s new strategy involved monitoring remedial action, as well as preventing corruption through campaigns to educate officials about what it is. The unit has also conducted risk assessments to determine corruption-prone sectors – which include the construction, health, education, information technology and local government sectors, as well as state-owned enterprises – to improve controls.
His comments come as President Cyril Ramaphosa this week authorised SIU investigations into the department of water and sanitation, the Ekurhuleni and eThekwini metropolitan municipalities, and the Media, Information and Communication Technologies Seta.
The water and sanitation department is under investigation for “maladministration and unlawful expenditure” on software from German company SAP. City Press revealed in April that the department blew R772m on software licences for itself and all its water boards – even for those who already had them and for others who didn’t need them.
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Facility management company Bosasa treated a long list of high-profile ministers and government functionaries to high-tech security systems for their homes.
The company, now known as African Global Operations, has, since at least 2013, installed high-end CCTV cameras, alarm systems and electric fencing for ministers Gwede Mantashe and Nomvula Mokonyane, and deputy minister Thabang Makwetla.
Also on the receiving end of Bosasa’s largesse were former SAA chairperson Dudu Myeni, former prisons boss Linda Mti, and one-time procurement manager for the Passenger Rail Agency of SA, Mbulelo Gingcana. Top ANC MP Vincent Smith rounds off the list, as News24 reported this week.
These claims are contained in an affidavit deposed to by a former Bosasa employee in November last year.
While Mantashe and Mokonyane would neither confirm nor deny that Bosasa came to their homes to install the security systems, Makwetla, the deputy minister of justice and correctional services, confirmed that Bosasa had installed an electric fence, cameras and an alarm at his home.
However, he said he “pleaded with [Bosasa chief executive Gavin] Watson, not once, not twice, not thrice, but continuously ever since” to charge for it, but Watson “flatly refused to send me the bill for the job”.
“This has been a source of serious frustration to the deputy minister,” Makwetla said yesterday.
Myeni responded to detailed questions with a terse “no comment”.
An affidavit details how various Bosasa directors had instructed him to install the systems, and even clean up gardens and fix pool pumps at the homes. The affidavit confirmed installations at the home of Smith this week.
Smith also received R670 000 in cash from Bosasa, which he said were loans from former Bosasa chief operations officer Angelo Agrizzi.
Agrizzi, however, denied any loan agreement, saying Watson ordered that Bosasa pay the money.
According to the affidavit, the security installations were branded “Special Projects” and were undertaken with Watson’s knowledge and approval.
Several Bosasa directors instructed him to install the equipment, including Papa Leshabane, Syvion Dlamini, Trevor Mathenjwa, Agrizzi and Watson, the whistle-blower claims.
“In 2013, Gavin Watson asked that I attend to the premises of [then Gauteng premier, now communications minister] Nomvula Mokonyane, while Angelo Agrizzi and Gavin Watson were at the premises,” the man alleges.
“I was instructed by Gavin Watson to sort out the electric fence, the generator, the CCTV systems, gate motor and other incidentals such as the pool, the distribution of electricity and lighting on the premises.”
The affidavit lists other systems that the ministers and top officials allegedly received, including:
• CCTV and recording systems, and perimeter lighting for mineral resources minister Mantashe’s house in Boksburg and homes in Cala and Elliot in the Eastern Cape, valued at R300 000;
• An electric fence, alarm system, CCTV system and computer server worth R350 000 for Makwetla’s home;
• A R150 000 alarm and CCTV system for Gingcana’s Randburg home;
• Electric fencing, CCTV and an alarm system worth R250 000 for Myeni’s Richards Bay home;
• R350 000 worth of work – including 4km of electric fencing and perimeter lighting, and alarm system repairs – to two of Mti’s properties, in Colchester and Greenbushes outside Port Elizabeth; and
• Electric fencing and a CCTV system worth R200 000 at Smith’s Roodepoort home.
“All the systems were paid for by the Bosasa Group,” the affidavit reads.
“Accounts would be opened as cash accounts and I would receive the cash from Jacques van Zyl and Angelo Agrizzi as the company did not want to reflect it on the books.”
Funny SMSes
News24 has also obtained copies of text messages apparently sent to the former Bosasa employee, supporting his claim that he was also tasked with maintaining the security systems.
On July 17 2017, Makwetla sent a text saying: “I thought I should report that the camera system went off again by Friday. On the screen it says: Please check the TX input signal. Thanks. Thabang.”
On June 1 2017, Mokonyane’s personal assistant Sandy Thomas wrote: “There is a problem at the house with the alarm system. For some reason, it keeps ringing, so it now has to be switched off at the switch. Please let me know what to do.”
On April 16 2017, Gingcana texted: “I have a challenge here. I’m locked in without a key to disable the gate to manual. There is no power for the area since 3am. Do you have anyone on standby to assist with the key?”
On March 28 2017, Smith texted: “Spoke to Gavin [Watson] on Sunday and this morning about moving camera. He has no problem. Regards.”
On January 7 2017 Mti wrote: “When in PE [Port Elizabeth] next, please check Colchester alarm continue [sic] to make noise when switching off, and Greenbushes switcher got lost and we can’t activate. Can bring spare one.”
The affidavit also details how, during the installation at Myeni’s home in 2014, a robbery took place. At the time, the Zululand Observer reported that R400 000 in cash was taken from her home, for which the culprits were arrested and sentenced. But the employee states he had to lie to police so as not to reveal that he was a private contractor.
Fightback
The employee is fighting his dismissal from Bosasa, saying he was disciplined and fired for storing “consumables”, such as wiring and cable trunking left over from the politicians’ and officials’ installations, at his home on the property of Bosasa’s Krugersdorp head office.
He said he was forced to keep them there to avoid questions about what they were used for.
Bosasa has won government contracts worth more than R10bn over the next five to 10 years from various departments, including the departments of justice, correctional services, home affairs, social development and the Airports Company SA.
In 2009, a Special Investigating Unit report found the company bribed former correctional services commissioner Mti and the department’s chief financial officer, Patrick Gillingham, to secure lucrative tenders, including massive fencing and catering contracts for prisons worth more than R1 billion.
The report was one of nearly 700 handed to the National Prosecuting Authority since 2007 for prosecution, but no action has been taken.
The former employee also alleges that Watson wanted him to sign a statement saying that Agrizzi instructed him to conduct the “Special Projects”.
He said he signed it but later revoked it, claiming he was uncomfortable about lying.
He then deposed the affidavit in November last year to fight his dismissal.
A Bosasa insider told News24 that the installations were done as favours, saying “favours keep people happy with Bosasa deals … and, most importantly, control any prosecution”.
The insider also provided details of “Operasie Skoonmaak”, apparently undertaken by Bosasa in January, which involved removing the CCTV systems the company installed to cover its trail.
News24 this week published footage captured by the system at Smith’s home that shows three men, believed to be Bosasa employees, removing the cameras.
What they say
In a detailed response, Makwetla’s office confirmed that he knew Watson “from the struggle days”, and shortly after his appointment, visited Bosasa’s operations centre as part of his work.
After New Year in 2015, Makwetla’s house was broken into and he needed a security upgrade, but all the companies were closed.
Around that time, Watson called, asking for an urgent meeting about “how the department was treating his company”, and Makwetla told him about the burglary.
Watson offered to help and Makwetla “asked him to send a quote first”. But, to Makwetla’s “discomfort”, Watson’s team began installing security systems without “forwarding any quote” and he declined to “charge the deputy minister as a comrade”.
“Makwetla immediately disagreed with him for the obvious reason that perceptions of conflict of interest would be difficult to dispel because his company was doing business with [the department].
“In the intervening period, the camera system which was installed had to be removed because it had glitches from day one.”
Makwetla said he was “not guilty of any wrongdoing” and undertook to approach the office of the Public Protector to investigate all tenders issued to Bosasa and other large companies during his term.
Texts and emails seeking comment from Gingcana and Mti went unanswered. Mti could not be reached for comment.
Leshabane, Bosasa’s executive director, said: “We are aware of a media and political conspiracy, and have been advised to communicate no further with the media until we have finalised our investigation into this conspiracy.”
Smith denied that Bosasa installed any systems at his home, saying it merely conducted an assessment and provided advice on possible upgrades.
Mokonyane’s spokesperson, Mlimandlela Ndamase, would neither confirm nor deny that Bosasa installed the systems at her home, questioning instead the provenance of the affidavit.
“The minister has been a public representative since 1994 … which positions entitled her to security upgrades at her house,” Ndamase said, adding that Mokonyane would respond “to the forum for whom the affidavit was made”.
Mantashe would neither confirm nor deny that Bosasa paid for his security system, saying: “It is not a valid question.”
He questioned why Bosasa would do him such a favour. “For what? If they were contracted by people who dealt with our security, what then? I can assure you I am not living for favours.”
The details of the alleged installations are included in a new docket presented to the Hawks by private investigator Paul O’Sullivan, who laid a charge against Watson and Smith over revelations that the MP received cash from Bosasa, reported by News24 last week.
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